TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) (06/16/90)
Hi there. I don't know of any appropriate place to post this question, so if this list is not appropriate, I'm sorry. Anyway, I have been given the task to write an install program for use by people with new machines that they want to use on the PC-NFS network. These people are not the techical type, and have no idea what a 3com board is. We have three types of boards in use here (3c501, 3c503, and 3c523) which all use different device drivers for PC-NFS. I need to write a program that will detect which type of board is in the machine and install the appropriate device driver(s) in the CONFIG.SYS file. The best solution 3com had to offer was to open up our 300+ machines here and look at the card inside. I have a program called MYEADDR which will tell me the Ethernet address on the card, but it must have a parameter on the command line telling it which type of card I want to get the address from. If I specify the incorrect board type, the address comes out as either 0:0:0:0:0:0 or ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff so I can find out what kind of 3com board is in the machine. This is not an acceptable solution, however, because like I said, this is beyond the ability of those running my install program. If anyone knows a software method of determining which type of 3com board is in a machine, or even the Ethernet address on the three boards, I would be most greatful. Thanks, Thomas Dwyer III TOMIII @ MTUS5.BITNET Network Programmer DWYERIII @ MTUS5.BITNET Michigan Technological University